I hope you enjoyed the mild sauce we got this weekend, as that's the last we'll see for awhile in the area! I need to own up to a bust on the forecast while I'm on the mild weather bit: The six day planner had a high of 30 for Friday, and we got all the way to 39. The forecast was 36 for Saturday, Jackson actually saw 49! If I had gotten to post again and look at some data I'm sure I would have went up to 44-46, but I doubt I would have printed any closer to the actual high than that. Oh well. I am not a degreed met and far from perfect besides. I'll do better for you as we wind down 2013. Let's take a peek at how this year should wrap up weather-wise in this area...
THE FREEZER DOOR IS OPEN AGAIN: Yes it is, friends. Yes it is. Mount Pleasant is at 19, 17 in Big Rapids. Go way north, Grayling is 9 degrees! Here's a look at the temperature map for the entire nation...
Give it a couple of days and that cold weather over Minnesota and the Dakotas, spreads deeper into the US, and we get in on some of those frigid readings. The GFS forecast model says we don't get above 22 until this Saturday. A bit of wind with these colder temperatures will keep us feeling like low teens and single digits! Saturday, perhaps 30.
SOME SNOW FOR THE NEW YEAR HOLIDAY: There's a couple of periods of snow as we start a fresh 2014 calendar soon. Some flurries tonight into tomorrow, then again Monday night into Tuesday. New Year's Eve doesn't look terribly snowy, but New Year's Day could see some snow, with perhaps as much as two inches. What we're keeping an eye on right now is what's going to happen on Thursday, as a fairly organized system works into the area. I expect that one to bring us as much as 4 to 6 inches of new snow when all is said and done. We'll be watching that one and figure out timing and amounts and such as we get closer to the event.
A BIT OF MODERATION ON SATURDAY: The closest we get to freezing the next several days is the weekend, when we get to 30, if forecast models have a handle on everything.
Here's the forecast for Jackson and surrounding areas including Parma and Spring Arbor:
Tonight, cloudy, some flurries possible, cold, lows near 13.
Monday, continued cloudy, some flurries or light snow possible, chilly, high 22.
Tomorrow night, cloudy, cold, lows near 12, wind chills in the single digits.
New Year's Eve, cloudy skies, a few flurries can't be ruled out, high only 18.
New Year's Day, cloudy, perhaps some snow accumulating up to about an inch, high 19.
There's your forecast, we'll have more detail on the second day of 2014, as that's when we expect the storm to make it's way through the area.
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